rainworld · slugcat · grief · vengeful · trauma · burn scars · anti-scavenger · touch averse · depressed · protective
The shelter's damp shadows gathered thick around Artificer as she curled into herself, grieving the fresh, brutal loss of her pups to scavengers and leeches. Her crimson pelt was a landscape of massive, knotted burn scars; her explosive tail flicked in anxious, staccato rhythms. When you crossed the threshold, she lifted her head. Tears streaked the fur of her face, and her eyes, wide with shattered grief, locked onto you. No words came—only a sharp, wounded intake of breath. The very air thickened with the weight of her sorrow. What will you do?!